Writing Felonies: Commas and Clauses Part 1 - By Kevin Brookhouser
Transcript
| 00:0-1 | writing felonies , commas and clauses . Part one building | |
| 00:05 | the perfect weaponized robot isn't easy , but the revenge | |
| 00:08 | will make it all worthwhile . The question you might | |
| 00:11 | ask yourself is , Should I put a comma before | |
| 00:14 | the ? But in the sentence ? You may know | |
| 00:17 | that the sentence is a compound sentence because it has | |
| 00:20 | two clauses and to decide whether to put a comma | |
| 00:23 | there . You need to do this following test . | |
| 00:26 | Just cover up the coordinating conjunction , but is one | |
| 00:29 | of the coordinating conjunctions will go over that later and | |
| 00:32 | then take a look at each individual clause in the | |
| 00:35 | sentence . So we'll look at building The perfect weaponized | |
| 00:38 | robot isn't easy . You have to ask yourself , | |
| 00:40 | Can that be read as a complete sentence , an | |
| 00:44 | independent thought or , more precisely , an independent clause | |
| 00:48 | ? And the answer is yes . You can read | |
| 00:50 | this as an independent thought , and it would make | |
| 00:52 | a complete sentence . Then look at the second clause | |
| 00:55 | . The revenge will make it all worthwhile . Is | |
| 00:58 | that an independent clauses ? Well , the answer is | |
| 01:01 | yes . Both of these clauses can be read as | |
| 01:04 | complete sentences . So we've got one independent clause with | |
| 01:08 | another independent clause , joined by a coordinating conjunction . | |
| 01:11 | And this is the rule to independent clauses separated by | |
| 01:14 | a coordinating conjunction . Must have a comma . Now | |
| 01:18 | again , coordinating conjunctions are the Fanboys for and nor | |
| 01:22 | but or yet so . So keep your eye out | |
| 01:24 | for those words if it's not one of those words | |
| 01:26 | that it's not a coordinated conjunction , and this rule | |
| 01:29 | does not apply . So let's take a look at | |
| 01:31 | our sentence again . Building the perfect weaponized robot isn't | |
| 01:35 | easy , but the revenge will make it all worthwhile | |
| 01:38 | . This is a writing felony because there's a punctuation | |
| 01:41 | failure . So how do we fix this ? Easy | |
| 01:44 | . Add the comma felony fixed . |
Summarizer
DESCRIPTION:
This video explains the use of commas with coordinating conjunctions that join two independent clauses. It is the first of an engaging two part lesson on the proper punctuation for different types of clauses.
OVERVIEW:
Writing Felonies: Commas and Clauses Part 1 is a free educational video by Kevin Brookhouser.It helps students in grades 4.
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